Marine Forward Element Set Up to Help in Middle East

By Donna Miles of American Forces Press Service MANAMA, Bahrain, Feb. 25, 2011 - Traveling through the Middle East to confer with U.S. allies in the midst of regional unrest, the top U.S. military officer visited a new Marine Corps headquarters element here designed to evacuate noncombatants or provide humanitarian assistance and disaster response. U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks with U.S. Marines assigned to U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Central Command, in Bahrain, Feb. 25, 2011. DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley  Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, checked in today on the Marine Corps Forces Central Command Forward element at Naval Support Activity Bahrain. The headquarters stood up in November to bring Marine Corps Forces Central Command what its other sister services already have: a forward element within the 20-nation Centcom area of operations. "Trying to conduct business from the MARFORCENT headquarters in Tampa is a bit difficult," Lt. Col. Mark Duffer, the element's deputy current operations officer, told reporters traveling with Mullen. "So we wanted to push something forward to the here and now, to what's happening so we can [create an] effect right away." Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, pushed for the new forward element to focus on two primary missions: theater security cooperation and crisis management. "This was his vision here," Duffer said. "And his vision started a couple of years ago and finally came to fruition here." MARFORCENT stood up with a staff of 161 Marines, sailors and civilian employees working in a tiny facility within Naval Support Activity Bahrain. The location proved to be perfect, operationally as well as geographically, Duffer said. Home to Naval Forces Central Command and the U.S. Fifth Fleet, close partners in the MARFORCENT mission, it's situated smack in the middle of the Centcom area of operations. "If you put your finger right on the map, on Bahrain, you can see we are very centrally located and [that it's] a very good location," Duffer said. "We can ... reach out and touch anybody, so we provide that stabilizing force." From their new location, Marines assigned to the element work to build capability within regional militaries, concentrating more on ground than amphibious forces. "We focus ... on the basics of what Marines do: hand-to-hand combat and marksmanship and other things that are very basic and make up the Marine Corps ethos that we want to provide," Duffer said. The goal, he explained, is to help strengthen regional allies' forces so they are better able to defend their nations and, if needed, to provide coalition support for future operations. Meanwhile, MARFORCENT is now positioned to provide faster response to a regional crisis -- particularly noncombatant evacuation operations and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. "We are that 9-1-1 force people can tap into to efficiently, effectively and always get the job done," Duffer said. As unrest ripples through the Middle East, he recognized the potential for the new element to be called on to help evacuate civilian noncombatants caught in the violence. "As we stand up this command center, we have an ability to command and control that" at Centcom's direction, he said. "We can actually stand up as a joint task force with coalition forces, as well as provide [evacuation operations] within this region. "We are prepared to do that, but have not been asked as of yet," Duffer said. The more certain requirement -- the only question being its exact timing and location -- is a rapid humanitarian assistance and disaster response in the event of a crisis in the region. Brig. Gen. Brian Beaudreault, commander of Marine Expeditionary Brigade Bahrain, understands that need firsthand. When the forward element stood up last fall, he was on the ground in Pakistan, commanding the U.S. joint task force that responded to devastating floods there. "This is one of the key tasks that we can be assigned to do, so I think we are very well positioned" to carry it out," Duffer said. Gunnery Sgt. Adam Doyle, who served with MARFORCENT headquarters in Tampa before helping form the forward element, said the new location improves the ability to coordinate operations, as well as logistics. "The command here brings ready access," he said. "It provides what we need to be more responsive." As the element continues to take shape, Doyle and his fellow MARFORCENT Marines are preparing to move next month into a larger headquarters being renovated across the base. Exactly how many Marines ultimately will join the element is classified, but Duffer said he sees developments underway as a sign of MARFORCENT's long-term commitment to strengthening partnerships and protecting U.S. interests in the region. "We are building up this command center for a lasting, enduring mission within [Centcom's] area of responsibility," he said.

Biographies: Navy Adm. Mike Mullen Related Sites: Special Report: Travels With Mullen

Ashton B. Carter speaks with members of the press

Ashton B. Carter, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, speaks with members of the press about the KC-46A contract announcement during a briefing with Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley, and Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III, at the Pentagon, Feb. 24, 2011. DOD photo by Cherie Cullen 

CMC Hospital Chosen to host national CME

Ludhiana : The Christian Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana has been chosen to host the prestigious National Continuing Medical Education (CME) of the Indian Association of CardioVascular & Thoracic Surgeons (IACTS).  Dr Harinder Singh Bedi – Head of CardioVascular & Thoracic Surgery at the CMC & H – said that at the recent 57^th Annual Conference of the IACTS the CMC was chosen out of a panel of 8 Institutes which had applied for this prestigious meeting. The National CME is a condensed educative programme for all young Cardio Vascular and Thoracic Surgeons of India. A distinguished faculty from India and abroad is chosen to come to CMC to take part in the CME. The CME will be held in the first week of Nov 2011. Leading pioneers from India including Dr KM Cherian, Dr Sampath Kumar, Dr JS Gujral, Dr Bhattacharya, Dr Girinath, Dr Trehan and others have been invited for the lectures. The delegates are MCh students from all over India. Such a programme goes a long way in ensuring quality of training of the young surgeons.

CMC & H was chosen in view of the excellent track record it enjoys in the Cardio Vascular field. The surgeons of CMC are credited with innovating the world’s first ever series of multivessel beating heart surgery and of minimally invasive cardiac surgery and endovascular management of disorders which would otherwise need complicated open surgeries. In fact Dr Bedi had the largest number of presentations and lectures at the 57^thConference in Chennai which were greatly appreciated by the National and international delegates.

Dr Abraham G Thomas – Director of CMC & H – reiterated that the CMC being one of the oldest Institutes of India was always in the forefront on imparting quality education so that the people of this country are not deprived of any therapy. --Rector Kathuria

Boeing Wins Aerial Tanker Contract

By Jim Garamone of American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 2011 - The Boeing Co. has won the contract to produce the Air Force's KC-46A aerial refueling aircraft, replacing the Eisenhower-era KC-135s and the Reagan-era KC-10s. Left to right, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, Air Force Secretary Michael B. Donley, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III, and Ashton B. Carter, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, speak with members of the press about the KC-46A contract announcement at the Pentagon, Feb. 24, 2011. DOD photo by Cherie Cullen  Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said the competition for the contract was fair, open and transparent and he believes it will survive any possible challenge. "What we can tell you is Boeing was a clear winner," Lynn said. Air Force Secretary Michael B. Donley made the announcement at the Pentagon this evening. Both offers –- by Boeing and EADS -– met all 372 mandatory requirements under the competition, he said. The contract signed today is for $3.5 billion for engineering and manufacturing. This portion of the contract will yield four aircraft. Under this award Boeing will build 179 aircraft. Overall the contract is worth $30 billion with a final amount depending on the options exercised, Donley said. "I am pleased that this process has produced an outcome after an exhaustive effort by hundreds of the department's very best people, that we will get about delivering a capability that's long overdue and we can stop talking about it," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz said. The first 18 aircraft will be delivered by 2017. Lynn said warfighters defined the requirements for the aircraft, and this is a fixed-price contract. "This competition favored no one, but the taxpayer and the warfighter," he said. Donley called the tanker buy the service's No.1 need. He said he and Schwartz "are confident that when our young pilots, boom operators and maintainers receive this aircraft, they will have the tools they need to be successful at what we ask them to do." Boeing will use a version of the 767 aircraft for the new tanker. EADS based its submission on the Airbus A330. Donley said Boeing's submitted cost for the contract will provide "substantial savings to the taxpayer." This was the third time this contract has been awarded. In 2003, the Air Force agreed to lease aerial tankers from Boeing, but the deal fell through due to illegal acts that had involved some Boeing and Pentagon officials. In February 2008, EADS won the reconfigured contract, but that was voided after the Government Accountability Office ruled that Boeing was treated unfairly.

Biographies: William J. Lynn III Michael B. Donley Ashton B. Carter Air Force Gen. Norton A. Schwartz Related Sites: DOD News Release

Carter: 'Better Buying Power' Drives Defense Acquisitions

By Cheryl Pellerin  American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2011 - Supporting the war effort and managing the budget are top jobs in the office of acquisition, technology and logistics, and both have intensified with the Pentagon's mandate to do more with less, the Defense Department's acquisition executive said. Ashton B. Carter, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, briefs reporters at a Sept. 14, 2010, Pentagon news conference about a Defense Department initiative to save up to $100 billion over five years by implementing reforms in acquisition and procurement policy. DOD photo by R.D. Ward  Ashton B. Carter gave the keynote address on the defense efficiency initiative to an audience of 500 here last night at a meeting of the Center for a New American Security. "As one of the prongs of the efficiency initiative, [Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates] asked me to devise a plan for finding efficiencies within $400 billion of the $700 billion defense budget that is my area of responsibility," Carter said, "namely, that which is contracted out of the department for goods and services." Gates introduced the efficiency initiative during a May 8 speech at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kan. "This led to something called 'better buying power,'" which he and Gates introduced Sept. 14, Carter said. "It takes the form of guidance from me to our acquisition work force -- 147,000 acquisition professionals -- on how they can get, as I put it, more without more, because we're not going to have more." The objective is to deliver the warfighting capabilities needed for the money available, he added, by getting better buying power for warfighters and taxpayers. The 23-point strategy seeks to restore affordability in defense procurement and to improve defense industry productivity, Carter said. Each point was devised with input from the defense acquisition work force and from partners in industry, he said. Major themes of the strategy, according to Carter's guidance roadmap, include targeting affordability and controlling cost growth, providing incentives for defense industry productivity and innovation, promoting competition, improving the acquisition of services, and reducing bureaucracy. "Our first effort has to be at affordability, and that has to be for new programs we're beginning and ones we've already begun," Carter said. An example, he said, is the the next-generation ballistic missile submarine that will replace the Ohio-class nuclear missile-carrying submarine in the 2020s. "When we got the first design and cost estimate for the SSBNX, we were coming in at $7 billion apiece. If the Navy spent that much in the period 2020 to 2030 on the SSBNX, it wouldn't be able to buy any other ships. Said differently, that ain't happening," Carter said. "Rather than head down a road that was sure to lead to a broken program, we had to back up and look at the drivers of the design," he said. These were tube number, tube diameter, degree of stealth, flank speed and other factors that drove the overall cost. "We began to shape the design with affordability as a requirement," Carter said. "And we found we could do that." The Navy's cost now is down to about $6 billion per submarine, with a target of $4.9 billion, he added. "And that's the kind of thing we're going to have to do with everything we're starting now," Carter said. But some programs are already in progress, Carter noted. "They were started, and now here we are," he said. "We have them, and we need to control costs on them." Competition is another big driver of efficiency, and the Defense Department tries to use competition as creatively as possible, Carter added. In the recent case of the littoral combat ship, he said, two different sea frame makers asked to prepare bids for a subsequent buy. "When we got the bids in," he continued, "the numbers suggested to me that both shipbuilders believed they were entitled to build these ships for us." Defense Department officials decided that only one shipbuilder would win the contract, and asked each contractor to bid on building 10 ships, based on the assumption that only one company would win. Other incentives were added to the contract, Carter said, and when the bids came in again, "they were substantially lower, because the people comparing them had been able to think of plausible ways to reduce the costs." The bids were so attractive, Carter said, "that we decided to buy all 20. It was a great deal." The Defense Department doesn't make anything, he noted. "All of the weapons systems and equipment that make us the best military in the world -- and that is, next to our people in uniform, our greatest asset as a military power -- are made in industry." The defense industry and its technological health and vitality are a national asset, Carter said. "In that sense, the taxpayer and the warfighter, whom I represent, have the same interest as a long-term shareholder in the defense industry."

Biographies: Ashton B. Carter Related Sites: Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Related Articles: Efficiency Initiative Has Broad Support

Violent Libya : need for effective Arms Trade Treaty

Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:47 AM

TAKING ACTION TOGETHER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Image: Still from YouTube showing vehicles that appear identical to those manufactured by UK based NMS International, in use in Libya to crackdown on protestors. Dear Rector, Over the last few days we've been appalled by the violent and totally unacceptable crackdowns on peaceful protesters in Libya, Bahrain and several other countries across the Middle East & North Africa. And there's evidence emerging that the UK may have licensed security equipment to the Libyan authorities which has been used to crush protests across the country. Next weeks there will be negotiations at the UN on the proposed Arms Trade Treaty.The need for strong international export controls to prevent weapons, munitions and related security equipment from ending up in the hands of known human rights abusers is more vital than ever. Take action now to pressure the UK Government to press for a strong and effective Arms Trade Treaty We have long campaigned for a strong and effective control on the deadly trade in weapons. These licenses for Libya should never have been granted in the first place given the reams of credible information we and others have supplied to the UK government relating to the Libyan government’s extreme intolerance of all forms of dissent. We are also calling for a comprehensive arms embargo and an immediate suspension of any further shipments of equipment that pose a real danger of being used to violently suppress peaceful protests in Libya, and a halt to similar transfers to Yemen, Bahrain and other protest-hit countries in the region. Please take action now Thank you. Kristyan Benedict Campaign Manager - Crisis Response & Country Priorities

Logistical Drawdown Continues in Iraq

By Donna Miles of American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2011 - Spring is still a month away, but that's not stopping what is likely to be the largest and longest-running spring-cleaning project ever undertaken to prepare for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq by Dec. 31. The logistical drawdown in Iraq made headlines as Stryker armored vehicles of the 2nd Infantry Division's 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, pictured here on Aug. 17, 2010, prepared to leave the country as the U.S. combat mission there ended Aug. 31. But the 103rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command continues to oversee the drawdown effort and lay plans for the unit that will complete the drawdown effort by Dec. 31, 2011. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Kimberly Hackbarth  As the combat mission in Iraq officially ended in August and U.S. forces reduced their footprint to about 50,000 troops, President Barack Obama heralded "one of the largest logistical operations we've seen in decades" with the exodus of millions of pieces of military equipment, property and supplies. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Corson, commander of the Army Reserve's 103rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command that has overseen that mission, equated it to moving the entire city of St. Joseph, Mo., with all its people, vehicles, equipment and property, to "the other side of the planet." And despite the immensity of the effort, it was completed 10 days ahead of schedule, he said. Now, with about two months left in their deployment, Corson's troops are continuing the logistical drawdown while laying critical groundwork for its follow-on unit to reduce the U.S. footprint in Iraq to zero by the year's end. The drawdown operation under way now isn't nearly as dramatic as the headline-dominating images of the 2nd Infantry Division's 4th Stryker Brigade driving their convoy of armored vehicles into Kuwait in late August. But since the launch of Operation New Dawn on Sept. 1, about 3,000 truckloads of equipment and gear have continued to roll out of Iraq, Army Lt. Col. Gerard "Gerry" Schwartz, the command's deputy support operations officer, reported. And in the months ahead, he added, the volume will increase substantially. Overseeing that effort isn't simply a matter of moving everything from Point A to Point B, Schwartz explained. It requires identifying what's no longer needed and can be shipped home now, what can be transferred to units in Afghanistan or elsewhere, and what's simply too worn out or costly to transport. Under specifically regulated conditions, the United States can transfer some of its excess equipment to Iraqi security forces. Three fixed and eight mobile material distribution teams are at work throughout Iraq, helping units to categorize their property items. "They're sorting through things that are excess ... that might potentially be used for foreign [military] sales to get to the Iraqis," or items that could be returned to the U.S. military inventory , Schwartz said. As they do so, Schwartz said, they're ever mindful of the need to be good stewards of the taxpayers' money. "We are certainly aware of how much has been spent in this country and how well we have been equipped, and we want to make sure everything we can possibly get back, that we can continue to use in the [U.S.] inventory, that we do that," he said. While conducting the logistical drawdown, the 103rd ESC faces another complicating factor: ensuring that troops on the ground have everything they need until the day they redeploy. "It's a very delicate balance," said Army Col. Kathryn Luna, the command's plans officer. "Our No. 1 mission is to support and sustain the force. So therefore, that mission cannot fail with those 50,000 troops that we have here." So the trick, Schwartz said, is to move forward with the logistical drawdown without interfering with the ongoing U.S. mission in Iraq. The command does not want to cause any operational impacts for Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of U.S. Forces Iraq], or anyone else, he said. "So that is the challenge: making sure we are doing the primary mission, which is training Iraqi security forces, and that we don't lean too far forward on getting things out," Schwartz said. This also requires the 103rd ESC to forecast exactly how much food, water, fuel and other commodities it will need to move into Iraq to sustain a downsizing force through Dec. 31, Luna said. The goal is to ship exactly what the force will need, and nothing that ends up being reshipped home. "When it comes to sustainment, we know what we need to do based on the number of [military, civilian and contractor personnel] in theater," Schwartz said. "But we certainly want to make sure that when it comes to fuel capacity or the amount of rations, that we don't overdo it. We have to keep close tabs on that." And in light of huge and mounting transportation requirements, the sustainers are ensuring that every vehicle that arrives in Iraq with sustainment supplies leaves full of outgoing material. "It takes trucks to bring supplies in, and it takes trucks to get equipment of out the theater," Luna said. "So when those things are balanced, you are good to go. But it's a very fine line, keeping that all balanced." Meanwhile, the 103rd ESC is doing the detailed planning its follow-on unit, the 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, will need when it takes over the sustainment and logistical drawdown mission this spring, Corson said. Just as the 103rd ESC arrived in Iraq to carry out a massive drawdown at the end of U.S. combat operations, the 310th will oversee the final drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq. "We go home in April, but our commitment is to set the conditions for success for the 310th Sustainment Command as they come here to replace us so that there will be a seamless transition, just as we had a seamless transition back in July to accomplish the mission," Corson said. "And I think that is very important to U.S. Forces Iraq." Army Lt. Col. Gerard "Gerry" Schwartz, deputy support operations officer for the 103rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command, flies aboard a C-130 aircraft in Iraq to coordinate plans for the drawdown of U.S. forces by Dec. 31, 2011. Courtesy photo

Biographies: Army Brig. Gen. Mark Corson  Related Sites: 103rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command  U.S. Forces Iraq Related Articles: Sustainers Share Expertise With Iraqi Forces

Learning is a life long process

Last evening had a FB chat with one of my students. How nostalgic such interactions can become...! It is pleasing to the eyes and ears when your students tell you that they have learn t from you not only the subject matter but also the positive values to live meaningful life. It was also revealing for me that students are much more sensitive and sensible than we are ready to admit at that point of time. 

Jaswant Singh Aman

I believe that learning is life long process. Last evening again I was made aware that I need to to take care of my body language and off the cuff remarks. Young minds observe keenly and take their own meanings which may not have been intended.
My conviction that one needs to keep doing what one deems right was also reinforced. It will take the desire effect, may be too subtly to be perceptible.The same feeling was given by two other students recently.Thanks DK, thanks KJ and thanks KK for making me feel worthy of myself.--Jaswant Singh Aman

A new studio inaugurated in Ludhiana

Ludhiana :  Luxury Gyms In India are now an essential  part of new lifestyle. Peoples preferring the home gym also but it is not possible for everyone. Realizing the growing need of gym life the management of the Zero Gravity slimming, beauty & dance studio took another step for the Ludhiana residents. A gym cum beauty studio was inaugurated in Model Town Ext… on Sunday by its chairperson Rajan Nagpal. Inauguration Ceremony was started with the opening prayer. Speaking on the occasion Rajan said our mission is to provide the most accurate and up to date center for slimming beauty and dance with new techniques and up-to-date facilities. 

Your quest for slimming, fitness, beauty and dance ends here.  Zero Gravity (the slimming, beauty & dance studio) is a center where you get all the facilities under one roof. We are in weight loss profession since last 7 years. We also deals with medical problems, but don’t believe in dieting or medicine. 

While giving the vote of thanks Director Ms. Shikha said Gym area equipped with latest electronic machinery. Slimming therapies with unique computerized treatment with botanic muscle stimulation and many more. 

Professional skin ageing and lifting treatments with latest technology. Weight loss massages and spa treatments and steam bath. --Rector Kathuria & Shalu Arora

Now Kasāb can go to the Supreme Court

Mohammed Ajmal Amīr Kasāb can now challenge his death sentence, upheld by the Bombay High Court on Monday, in the Supreme. If the Supreme Court also uphold his death penalty then he may file mercy petition before the president. He was  born on 13 July 1987 in Pakistan. He is a Pakistani Islamic terrorist who was involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. According to Wikipedia details Kasab is the only attacker captured alive by police and is currently in Indian custody. The Government of Pakistan initially denied that Kasab was from Pakistan, but in January 2009, it officially accepted that he was a Pakistani citizen. On 3 May 2010, an Indian court convicted him of murder, waging war on India, possessing explosives, and other charges.On 6 May 2010, the same trial court sentenced him to death on four counts and to a life sentence on five other counts.His lawyer, Farhana Shah, said that her client still has a chance and is likely to appeal in the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court's order, which upheld his death sentence. She said, "We will go through the judgement and then suggest Kasab on the next course of legal action. It is upto Kasab to decide. 

Courtesy:cribb.in

Kasab was born in Faridkot village in the Okara District of Punjab, Pakistan. His father is a dahi puri vendor while his elder brother, Afzal, works as a laborer in Lahore. His elder sister, Rukaiyya Husain, is married in the village. A younger sister, Suraiyya, and brother, Munir, live in Faridkot with the parents.

Photo Courtesy:Urdu Tahzeeb

According to reports, the village of Faridkot is quite impoverished and isolated, despite being close to a larger town. On the side of a building, just outside Faridkot, graffiti in large lettering says, in Urdu, "Go for jihad. Go for jihad. Markaz Dawat ul-Irshad". 'Markaz Dawat ul-Irshad' is a parent organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba. For More details you may also click here. 

Another Shame Discovered in Haryana after 26 Years

NOVEMBER 1984 SIKH GENOCIDE

JUSTICE CAMPAIGN YOUR SUPPORT

MASS GRAVE OF "SIKHS" KILLED IN NOVEMBER 1984 DISCOVERED IN HARYANA AFTER 26 YEARS A mass Grave of Sikhs killed in November 1984 has been discovered after 26 years in village Hondh-Chillar, District Rewari, Haryana. The village was inhibited by several Sikh families and on November 02, 1984 in an organized and well planned attack, the entire village was burnt along with its Sikh population and Gurudwara. The village consisting of torched houses, burnt Gurudwara and scattered human bones has been now been discovered.

As per attorney Gurpatwant Singh Pannun Legal Advisor to Sikhs For Justice, the forlorn debris and human remains at village Hondh-Chillar discovered after 26 years are the most specific and convincing evidence of Sikhs localities being attacked and wiped out throughout India in a identical pattern. The evidence discovered on site indicates systematic pattern in which armed groups lead by Congress Leaders would cordon Sikh neighborhoods, rape the women and burn the men and children alive. "The discovery of Mass Grave of Sikhs in Haryana proves that Nanavati Commission's scope of inquiry into the killing of Sikhs was gravely insufficient and eyewash because the commission did not look into killings of Sikhs that took place outside Delhi", added attorney Pannun.

According to Karnail Singh Peermohammad scores of Sikhs living in the village were burnt to death on November 02, 1984 and the Police neither identified the dead nor investigated the killing of Sikhs. According to the FIR filed by Ghanpat Singh Sarpanch and other eyewitnesses, the Sikh population of the village was attacked on November 02, 1984 by a group of about 500 people who came in Trucks and were armed. The group was shouting "Ye Sardar Ghaddar hain, Inn ko khatam karain ge" (These Sardars are traitors and we will wipe them out).

Echoing a shock felt by numerous international human rights organizations and activists, Jatinder Singh of Sikhs For Justice added "It is unthinkable the way in which these Sikhs must have been systematically targeted and subjected to the most gruesome methods of mass killing known to humankind.  It is horrifying to think that these murders took place with state complicity through carefully orchestrated genocidal acts by armed groups of Indian men, transported from village to village by the state."  Adding to this shock, Jatinder Singh also cited that, "An entire village ethnically cleansed of a religious minority is the gravest violation of human rights and the most clearest proof of the Sikh Genocide. The innocent families of Hondh-Chillar village, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters were all exterminated simply because of their religious beliefs differed from the majority of India."

In addition to the statements made by AISSF and SFJ, researchers have brought forth information that on November 02, 1984 attackers surrounded Sikh houses and attacked by throwing petrol bombs into Sikh homes. Men and children were beaten and thrown into the burning houses and women were first raped and then thrown into the fire. The Sri Guru Granth Sahib was also desecrated and Gurudwara was put on fire as indication of the murderous rage of the mob, looking to destroy any and all traces of Sikh identity. In light of the recent discovery, AISSF and Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) will approach United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and South Asian Human Rights Commission to visit the site of Sikh Mass Graves in village Hondh-Chillar and investigate the attack on Sikhs that took place throughout India in November 1984. The genocidal site of village Hondh-Chillar is discovered by the sustained and unceasing efforts of Engineer Manvinder Singh Giaspur